Patent & IP news for December 28, 2012

EFF: Limit Software Patents from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Julie Samuels. Samuels holds an endowed chair at EFF aptly named the Mark Cuban Chair to Elimiate Stupid Patents. EFF's brief in the CLS Bank case is available here: http://www ...

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Royalty rate guides: how helpful are they? from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Technology Transfer Tactics has excitedly trumpeted the release of the 5th edition of Royalty Rates for Technology, some four years after the publication of its predecessor. This volume is stated to contain over 575 licence ...

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Against the Odds: How the Bar Code Has Become Part of Everyday Life from ipfinance.blogspot.com

His passing away on December 9, 2012, at the age of 91, attracted some media attention, including in The New York Times on December 13, 2012 here and in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, in its most recent ...

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What is the term of a patent? from ocpatentlawyer.com

The stock answer is that a patent is enforceable for 20 years upon filing. However, this is not the complete picture. First off, the patent term doesn’t start until grant of the patent which ...

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Tech Transfer: A Conversation with AUTM President Todd Sherer from www.ipwatchdog.com

Todd Sherer, Ph.D. is the director of technology transfer at Emory University, and is also currently President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). Recently AUTM concluded its annual survey and found, not ...

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ARRIS to Acquire Motorola Home Business for $2.35 Billion from www.ipwatchdog.com

you might want to take this with a grain of salt, but Arris announced on November 1, 2012, that its Board of Directors authorized an additional $150 million in share repurchases of the company's ...

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ITC Decides to Review Initial Determination and Remand the Investigation In Certain Static Random Access Memories (337-TA-792) from www.itcblog.com

On December 21, 2012, the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”) issued a notice and order in Certain Static Random Access Memories and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-792).  In the notice, the Commission determined to ...

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Speck Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Protective Cases For Portable Handheld Electronic Devices from www.itcblog.com

On December 21, 2012, Speculative Product Design, LLC of Mountain View, California, d/b/a Speck, (“Speck”) filed a complaint requesting that the U.S. International Trade Commission ( the “Commission”) commence an investigation pursuant to ...

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Top 5 Intellogist Posts of 2012 from intellogist.wordpress.com

In 2011, top Intellogist Blog posts covered patent applications for Godly powers and the mysterious search secrets of US patent examiners.  Posts in 2012 seem to have been a bit less mystical and a bit ...

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